So . . . they disband the program, then put it back together? Bizarre.
Sports Illustrated @SInow 16h16 hours ago UAB will decide by June 1 whether to reinstate its football program http://on.si.com/1A0PjlN
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So . . . they disband the program, then put it back together? Bizarre.
Sports Illustrated @SInow 16h16 hours ago UAB will decide by June 1 whether to reinstate its football program http://on.si.com/1A0PjlN
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If they reinstate it, everyone should be fired.Originally Posted by Dawgpix
Guess they realized the C-USA meant business . . . no associate membership.
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My opinion - it's a bluff to stay in CUSA longer. They have to start from scratch again with no players. If I was a recruit, there is no way I would go.
Supposedly they have 40ish players still around who didn't want to transfer.
But yeah, it would take them years to get back to full speed (which hasn't ever been really impressive for them).
They probably ought to consider that option either way. They have spent a lot of money on consultants and PR firms and have still bungled this left and right. I doubt they're really better off without football, but there had to have been a better way to go about the process of dropping it if they really felt that they needed to.
Did they keep their coach around? I can't imagine that, but wondering what fool would go there as a coach.
He has not taken another job on the off chance they can bring it back (he had time left on his contract, so they're paying him not to work).
I can't see UAB reinstating football. Watts --the university prez who started all this-- is still in his same post, and still in charge. And nobody's pushing him out. If UAB does reinstate football, as CHAMP110 said, they are so far behind everybody else now that they will be a drag on CUSA for years.
What's wrong with a weak UAB football program? They'd be an easy conference division win for us every year.
sort of like being in the sb
If UAB's admin/BOT cared anything about UAB football, UAB would be in the AAC right now instead of Tulsa.
That's a game I don't want to drive 8 or 9 hours round trip to see.
UAB would be everyone's homecoming sweetheart for the next 5 to 10 years.
Take a look at SMU. While they have recovered somewhat, they're still not even close to what they were before the "PONY EXCESS".
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